Peace Dividend: When Films Helped Boost India-Pakistan Ties
By 2016, Pakistan emerged among the top five overseas markets for Bollywood films, which fuelled a multiplex boom in that country and also helped revive a comatose Pakistani movie industry
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Bollywood: Glue That Bound India, Pakistan In Worst Times
From Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor to Shah Rukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor, Indian film stars have ruled hearts in both India and Pakistan but only a handful enjoyed the level of adulation that Madhuri Dixit did across the divide
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Aligarh Movement: Pioneer Of Women Education in North India
In 1937, Aligarh Girls School was upgraded to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Women’s College almost two decades before New Delhi’s premier Lady Shri Ram College was founded when the literacy rate among India’s women was just three percent
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Mulayam Singh Yadav: Social Justice Champ, Hindu Nationalist Nemesis
Yadav was catapulted to the highest echelons of power when he forged a formidable alliance of Muslims and the communities (around 85 percent of the population) historically disadvantaged under the Hindu caste system in the 1980s and 1990s. Congress’s failure in protecting Muslims when they faced increasing violence as the Hindu nationalists vied for power worked in helping Yadav cement the alliance.
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Indira Gandhi: How India’s Iron Lady Overcame Challenges, Proved Her Naysayers Wrong
Personal tragedies and circumstances shaped Indira Gandhi’s journey from a reluctant politician to India’s prime minister, proving those who underestimated her wrong by dominating Indian politics for two decades, influencing subsequent generations, and ensuring her family’s hold on Congress
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Indian, Pakistani Military Brass In Early Decades of Independence: Frenemies
In the early decades of independence, top Indian and Pakistani military officers, trained together at academies such as Sandhurst as a group of tightly-knit cadets selected based on shared features, maintained bonds despite hostilities and the tumultuous partition
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India-Arab Relations: How Centuries Old Ties Shaped Culture, Science
Indian expatriates in the Arab world represent a continuation of the enduring India-Arabia relations that date back centuries and enabled enriching exchanges in literature, science, and spirituality, going much beyond Islam and its propagation
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Nawaz Sharif: Exception Among Disliked Pakistan Leaders In India
Three-time Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has consistently taken a conciliatory approach towards India and sought peaceful co-existence and economic prosperity, earning him Indian approval as the businessman politician brings a pragmatic approach to politics wherein ideology takes a backseat and he appears willing to give more and take less
